Jurgen Klinsmann, the coach of the United States national soccer team, released his 23-man roster Thursday for next month’s Concacaf Gold Cup tournament.

“It’s kind of a roster where you have to go player by player and evaluate each situation to see where they are at and see how strong they are, but we are excited about a roster for the Gold Cup that really has a shot of winning it,” Klinsmann said in a statement. “This tournament gives us a huge opportunity to see where a lot of the players are. Even though we don’t have the European-based players that were part of our World Cup qualifying process, we put together the strongest team possible for this huge opportunity at the Gold Cup.”

Perhaps the most notable player on the roster is Landon Donovan, 31, who has not played for Klinsmann’s “A” team since August 2012 after taking a sabbatical from soccer over the winter. Donovan has played in 28 Gold Cup games and scored 13 goals, both national team records. Another national team veteran, Oguchi Onyewu, will return for the first time since June 2012.

Thirteen on the roster play in leagues outside the United States that are on summer breaks. Six of those — DaMarcus Beasley, Edgar Castillo, Joe Corona, Herculez Gomez, Michael Orozco Fiscal and Jose Torres — play in Mexico. Tijuana sends three players to the United States team, as does Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer.

All of the tournament’s first-round games are part of doubleheaders. The same goes for the quarterfinals (in Atlanta and Baltimore) and the semifinals (in Arlington, Tex.). The final is scheduled to be played at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 28.

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The United States begins play in the Gold Cup with a game against Belize in Portland, Ore., on July 9. It will then play Cuba in Sandy, Utah, on July 13 and close out the first round against Costa Rica in East Hartford, Conn., on July 16. If the United States finishes first or second in Group C, it will advance to the quarterfinals at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

Mexico, which won the 2011 Gold Cup, returned recently from the Confederations Cup in Brazil, where it represented Concacaf. Now, however, the sport’s regional governing body has changed the format. The winners of the 2013 and 2015 tournament will engage in a playoff for the right to represent Concacaf in the 2017 Confederations Cup in Russia.